capacity building

30.06.2005 The recent meeting of the Commonwealth Action Programme for the Digital Divide (CAPDD) held last week in London identified the national regulatory capacity as the key area for capacity building within the Commonwealth.

28.06.2005 Uganda Women Entrepreneurs Association Ltd (UWEAL) is training the uneducated women to market their products worldwide on the internet.

27.06.2005 Madrassas have all along remained the preserve of men but this one has broken new ground.

24.06.2005 Sri Lanka has opened e-Government Centre of Excellence.This centre is a result of a public private partnership between the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration, and Millennium Information Technologies.

24.06.2005 Red Hat Scholarships is the first ever open source program of its kind in the world designed to encourage young talent and spread the open source philosophy that has created world class software like Linux, Apache and many other programs.

24.06.2005 Three case studies of community radio prepared by the Commonwealth of Learning and the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa focus on various aspects of impact of radio on sustainable development.

22.06.2005 4 - 19 July 2005 Bangkok, Thailand Regional Workshop on Accessible Web-based Information Networking

22.06.2005 The World Summit Award national contest in Nigeria, also known as the Nigerian eContent Awards , has been officially launched in Lagos.

22.06.2005 Blindness in Ethiopia results from a wide range of natural and man-made factors, and is also linked to underdevelopment and armed conflict.

22.06.2005 By sharing your IT skills to build capacity in developing countries of Africa, Asia you can also develop your management skills.

21.06.2005 Mimos president and chief executive officer Tengku Datuk Dr Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen suggested that the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) should set up a US$1 billion Knowledge and Information Communication Technology for Development (KICT4D) Fund and KICT4D Task Force to help accelerate KICT4D among its 55 member countries.

21.06.2005 The world's largest school as recognised by the Guinness Book has made its foray into the media world with the launch of an Educational Frequency Modulation (FM) Radio Channel.

20.06.2005 The quality of programmes sent in for the ABU-UNESCO TV Documentary Exchange this year has seen a significant improvement from material submitted in previous years.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia is holding a training programme on local language web hosting and communication in the west Indian city of Pune on July 6-9, 2005. The training is targeted at grassroots and intermediary level civil society organisations and multi-stakeholder partners to expose them to the nuances of web-site creation, web-tools, and Plone content management system.

20.06.2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

20.06.2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

20.06.2005 OneWorld South Asia, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), is happy to announce the training programme on “Local Language Web Hosting and Communication with Ek-Duniya” at Pune during 6-9 July 2005.

19.06.2005 Bernd Eisenblätter, Managing Director of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH – German Technical Cooperation – has been awarded the title "Knowledge Manager of the Year 2005" in Berlin.

18.06.2005 In July 2005, READ Nepal, in collaboration with OneWorld South Asia and several other partners, launched the Open Knowledge Network (OKN). The community libraries of READ, which, in addition to being centres of enhancing learning through the printed word, had become synonymous with community action for development, are now being strengthened with Information Communication Technologies (ICTs). Sanjana Shreshta reports.

16.06.2005 University of Pune has launched Vidya Vani, its new, in-house radio station.